Joan Didion Quotes

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

Joan Didion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 5, 1934

Topics

SurviveChoiceThingsImagineAble

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

Jessica Hahn

GodMindBodyWrongKnowYour Body

I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.

Maxine Hong Kingston

LifeFamilyLiveProudAweArtists

If we want to close the achievement gap, build a well-educated workforce and responsible citizenry, we must start with our youngest children.

John Hickenlooper

ChildrenAchievementStartWantMust

Every fact in the universe will fit every other fact in the universe. A lie never did, never will fit anything but another lie made to fit it. Never, never!

Robert Green Ingersoll

LieUniverseWillNeverAnything

In the summer of 2004, Malem Jan was sitting with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the second son of Jalaluddin, in their Pakistani base in the North Waziristan town of Miram Shah when they heard their names on the BBC. The Americans were offering $250,000 and $200,000, respectively, as rewards for information leading to their capture.

Anand Gopal

SonInformationSummerSittingNames

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.

Lorrie Moore

WalkMeGoodbyeWorldYouKind

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Christiane Amanpour

FearManageTakesTollDoesStrain

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

Bonnie Blair

RememberWillDaysOlympics

With what I've gone through, I think it's really important to become a voice for abuse victims who have no voice. I want to be able to make a difference.

Ariel Winter

VoiceThinkMake A DifferenceWant

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Plutarch

PoetryPaintingSilentSpeaks

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

William Penn

KnowledgeIgnoranceHumilityPride

It doesn't matter to me who's the most powerful or profitable country in the world. All countries want to be prosperous. What's happening is a zero-sum game between China and the U.S., where their gain is our loss.

Peter Navarro

MeWorldGameLossPowerfulCountry

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